Transferring device for railway motor cars



Aug. 26, 1924. 1,506,213-

M. M. ANTHONY TRANSFERRING DEVICE FOR RAILWAY MOTOR CARS ,Filed April 9,1924 EILQA- 5 l5 Patented Aug. 26, 1924 PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN M. ANTHONY, OF HARRISONVILLE, MISSOURI.

TRANSFERRING DEVICE FOR RAILWAY MOTOR CARS.

Application filed April 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, MARTIN M. ANTHONY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Harrisonville, in the county of Cass and Stateof Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTransferring Devices for Railway Motor Cars, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to railway track equipment, and particularly to aswitch or device adapted to remove the cars of section crews from thesaid track and to re place the said cars to the track; the said devicebeing intended to relieve the operators of burdens incident to theremoval and replacement of cars as now commonly used.

It is a well known fact tothose skilled in the art that the conventionalmotor cars used by section crews are quite heavy and to derail or rerailor turn such cars imposes a burden on the crews which this invention isdesigned to modify. 1

Furthermore, the invention prevents accidental dropping of the carbetween the ties and tends to avoid damage to the motor of the car whichwould be occasioned by jolting, and it also obviates the twisting andspringing of axles of the car, and avoids danger to the workmen.

It is an object of this invention, therefore, to produce a device whichwill permit the car to be readily turned, the said device being intendedtosupport the heavy end of the car while it is being transferred to orfrom the rail; the said device necessitating only that the light end ofthe car be lifted by the crew and carried around while the wheels of theheavy end of the car are supported and rolled on tracks provided for usein the operation just described.

It is a further object of this invention to produce rails adapted to bestationed practically transversely of the rails of an ordinary railwaytrack, and to provide plates on which wheels of the car to be changedmay rest while the opposite wheel is traveling along one of the curvedrails, making it possible to transfer the wheel from one rail to theopposite rail of the railway track without heavy lifting or liabilityof. the car being dropped between the rails and ties.

With the foregoing and oth r objects in 1924. Serial No. 705,318.

view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in thearrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully setforth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein likecharacters denote correspond ing parts in the several views, and inwhich Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of a fragment of the railwaytrack showing a device embodying the invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 illustrates a side elevation thereof;

Figure 3 illustrates a sectional View on the line 33 of Fig. 1; and

Figure- 4 illustrates a sectional View on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In these drawings, 5 and 6 denote plates or platforms which constitutesupports for flanges of wheels of a motor car while the car is beingturned. The plates have curved rails 7 and 8 connected to them,respectively, and the rails curve oppositely and diverge from a plate 9to which they are secured by fastenings 10 such as rivets, bolts or thelike. The rails 7 and 8 are likewise secured to their respective platesby similar fastenings, but as the type of fastening is not material,further detailed description there of is believed unnecessary.

The rails and plates are supported by shoes or hooks 11 and 12 thatembrace the head of one of the rails of the track, and the plate 9 isassociated with a shoe or hook 13 that embraces the head of the oppositerail of the track, so that when the device is applied to the rails ofthe track as shown in Fig. 1, there are two curved rails which divergeand may be employed for supporting the wheels of the motor car when thesame is to be turned, it being understood that the light end of the carwill be carried around by the crew while the wheels of the heavier endare being supported by a plate and rail, according to the direction oftravel imparted to the car by the crew.

The shoes 6 have loops or eyes 14 which are engaged by the angularlydisposed ends of the track extension 15 on which the wheels of cars maytravel on an incline from the ground to the top of the shoe in orderthat the said Wheels may be placed on the transversely disposed railsWhen the car is to be replaced: on the railway track Iclaiiinf i 1. In atransferring device for railway motor cars, oppositely d verging railsadapted to extend bet 'v een' the" rails of a; railway track, means forsupporting the diverging ends of'the rails in proximity to one of therails of the track, and means for supporting the converging ends of therails in proximity to the opposite rail of said track, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a transferring device forrailway motor cars, oppositely curvedrails adapted to occupy positions between rails of a rail- Wa-y, track,shoes adapted to embrace the head of one of the rails for suspending theends'of the diverging rails in proximity to the rail' of the track, anda member adapted to embrace the other rail of the l'@ k .QWl ll th e l ri nd of the sziidfra'ils" are (fonne'cti'edf silbsta nt-ially asdescribed.

3. In a transferring device for railway motor cars, oppositelypuryedrails adapted to occupy positions between rails of a rail- Way track,"shoes adapted to embrace the head 0t one of the rails for suspendingthe ends of the diverging rails in proximity to the rail of the track, amember adapted to embrace the other rail ofthe track toivhich theconverging ends of; the said rails are connected, and platformsconstituting supports for flanges of. the rail at approximatelyrails'and their "supporting means.

' MARTIN M. ANTHONY.

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